Today many people are attracted to movies and TV dramas showing traditional heritage contents because those visual materials communicate with viewers through various works. Visual media have been using traditional heritage contents adding on modern st...
Today many people are attracted to movies and TV dramas showing traditional heritage contents because those visual materials communicate with viewers through various works. Visual media have been using traditional heritage contents adding on modern style such as stylish visualization, vivid narrative and scenes to movies and TV dramas since 2000. This phenomenon has become a key word for mass culture through expanding its potentialities and limits.
Tourists in 21st century prefer experience tourism and they have become more interested in traditional culture. Visual media, therefore, have been producing various styles of movies and TV dramas with traditional heritage contents. The purpose of this study is to know effective relation among attitude change of tourists to traditional culture after the tourists’ exposure to currently rising traditional heritage contents in movies and TV dramas.
This study has tested the gap between attitudes to traditional culture and the exposure to traditional heritage content-based visual media depending on potential tourists’ interest in traditional culture. It is based on the phenomenon of tourists consumption caused by visual media and perception change of traditional culture. It has also analyzed and established by evidence effects on intention to choose traditional culture experience tourism products which is brought by good attitudes to traditional culture by the exposure of visual media.
The results of this study show that movies and TV dramas are properly adjusted to viewers as a source of tourism information on traditional culture.
The hypothesis testing is the following: First, frequency of visual media exposure has differed at levels of involvement of traditional culture. Second, higher involvement of traditional culture has had a positive effect on flow with visual media. Third, frequent exposure to traditional heritage content-based visual media has motivated tourists’ attitudes and preference to traditional culture. Forth, viewers with deeper flow with traditional heritage content-based visual media have had a more positive effect on change in their attitudes. Fifth, after being exposed to traditional heritage content-based visual media, tourists have changed their attitudes to traditional culture according to the involvement of traditional culture.
This study with new tourism researchers’ points of view has looked at traditional heritage content-based movies and TV dramas through analyzing and testing influences on interest in about traditional culture and intention of its experience tourism according to exposure to traditional heritage content-based visual media.
TV dramas give information on traditional culture and are exposed spontaneously to the viewers in daily life. That means they could be the best way of indirect marketing tool to advertise the tourist sites and the traditional cultural contents. In the process of marketing tourism products, movies and TV dramas, based on this study, could be used for effective and basic marketing material as well as development of tourism resource research for attracting tourists to traditional culture. According to the results, many viewers are not only interested in the story but also in the various contents of traditional culture appeared in movies and TV dramas. Korean National Tourism Organization and travel agencies need to participate at the beginning of the production of visual media for segmentation of potential tourism market of traditional culture.
This study is expected to activate and promote domestic tourism with further studies on relations between tourism and traditional heritage content-based visual media. It is also expected to develop cultural tourism marketing with Korea’s own specialization of tourism which can stimulate foreign tourists’ interests and the perception of Korea.